What happens in bad weather, I wonder?
Catrans and some Berkeley boffins were working on this technology 20 years ago.
Big deal. I’ve seen an entire government led by an empty suit.
Take away independent movement.
For SAFETY of course.
I was talking to my wife about this a few days ago. I strongly believe that most cars sold in 20 years will have a driverless option. And it will be used - a LOT.
It reminds me of the analog and digital speedometers on my car. I’ve always thought digital was dumb and preferred the nice dial of analog. But I’ve owned my car for three months now and I rarely view the analog speedo. Same thing will happen with these cars. Give it 15 years and I’ll bet most cars will be driven by computer. In 20, it will be the norm.
And though people will have the option to drive themselves, most people will be like me with my analog speedometer. I force myself to look at it, just so I feel it should be there.
This will be the last step before we go to cars that you CAN’T drive. The love affair with the manually driven car really will go away, but it had a pretty long run.
taking a driverless car to work in a brainless congress
much of the time I can see this working fine, but I’m having trouble seeing how it works flawlessly every time, in every situation. I love technology, and expect I would use it frequently perhaps, but there are issues. If one is out of the habit of driving, and he system isn’t working right due to weather, conditions, failure, the drivers basic skill level will be poor from lack of use at a time when it is needed most.
I’m working on getting a 1947 pickup with manual everything, not planning on getting a new “new” car again. Rebuild an old one into a old “new” car is my plan.
Our society will continue to evolve into one with increasing variances in wealth, knowledge, culture and outlook. Technocratic and economic elite will be probably 5% of the population. They will drive the productivity and innovation gains such as these, which will continue apace.
The middle class will comprise another 25-30%, while the remaining 70% or so will increasingly just be filling space and living off entitlements. They won’t be encouraged to participate in the economy, and many won’t want to. Many simply won’t have the knowledge or skill to participate either and they will be pushed further and further into dependency.
Its the most obvious way forward for the US Government and the progressive left. They will need rapid technological productivity gains such as this to balance out the FED money printing and taxes to fund massive Gov’t debt and liabilities, and to pay for the nanny state.
He's still going to claim the mileage and per diem.
The perfect metaphor for our present federal government: guidance from afar, no vision of the path ahead, and no personal accountability.
Can’t wait until they use that at Nascar, Should be exciting——not.
Will he file a bill calling for RWI penalties?
The situation on a typical highway is extremely complex. Trusting peoples’ lives to a computer program is a very very dumb enterprise.
“Oh there will be precautions. redundant systems. fail safe. blah blah blah”
You’ll have to pry my steering wheel out of my cold dead hands.
The sequester? :)